See my comments below.
At 12:12 AM 2/5/99 +0000, Richard Adams wrote [with deletions]:
>According to Ray Olszewski:
>> 1. On Slackware, the problem occurs between the point where /etc/rc.d/rc.M
>> starts executing and the where it executes /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 . So look for
>> lines you added or changed either in rc.M or at the beginning of rc.inet1 .
>
>I dont think its the beginning, as his ethernet card gets found and seeminly
>configured. Possably either at the end of inet1 or the start of inet2.
>The message says,
>loading device 'eth0'
>ne.c:v1.10 ......
>NE*000 ethercard probe ....
>eth0: NE2000 found at......
>
>So rc.inet1 is being read and executed.
Not exactly. The eth0 messages you're quoting are from the kernel, when it
assigns the interface to the physical device, not from rc.inet1, which (on a
stock Slackware install) doesn't write anything to the screen (unless it
doesn't find a working eth0).
In fact, the pop to a shell is occurring between these two messages:
>gling multiuser
>Mounting remote file systems
The first is (I presume) a typo for "Going multiuser", the first echo line
in rc.M . The second is the first echo line in rc.inet2, which rc.M calls.
Before it does so, it calls rc.inet1, which sets up the IP address and
routing for eth0.
I assume the eth0 interface is getting its IP address and such, but there's
no way to know (from the message that was posted) whether this occurs before
or after the popout to bash. So the problem is, I infer, in one of these places:
-- in rc.M, after the first echo and before the call to rc.inet2
-- in rc.inet1, anywhere
-- in rc.inet2, before the first echo
-- in /etc/inittab, as discussed in my earlier message
NOTE to bystanders: this stuff is all very specific to Slackware. I don't
think any of the other distributions (certainly not RH, Debian, or S.u.S.E.)
has an initialization sequence anything like Slackware's any more. So unless
you use Slackware, don't try to use this for anything.
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